Word: rand
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Another reason that diplomats and embassies are increasingly frequent targets of violence is that the attacks often succeed. Embassy invasion is fast becoming in the '80s what skyjacking was in the '70s. Says Brian Jenkins, the Rand Corp.'s specialist on terrorism: "The generally harder line toward other forms of international terrorism has not applied to the taking over of diplomatic missions. There is mounting evidence that terrorists may have shifted to diplomatic missions, where they are less likely to face assault...
...when he and Graduate Student J. Presper Eckert Jr. began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed in 1950. But Sperry lost its early lead in computers to IBM, and ENIAC'S creators, having signed away their patents early, never achieved great wealth. Said Mauchly: "That is life...